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Fall Classic 200, a former name of a stock car race in Indiana, U.S. Fall Classic at Arrowhead, an alternate name of the Northwest Missouri State−Pittsburg State college football rivalry; Straight Down Fall Classic, a golf tournament in California, U.S.
Because the series is played in the fall or autumn season in North America, it is often referred to as the Fall Classic. [3] Before the AL and NL were split into divisions in 1969, the team with the best regular-season win–loss record in each league won its pennant and advanced to the World Series, barring a tie necessitating a pennant playoff.
While at Arrowhead, the Fall Classic drew more than 20,000 fans each year (including 26,695 in 2004), the largest attendance of any regular-season NCAA Division II sporting event. [citation needed] Since 1991 the two MIAA rivals have appeared in 15 NCAA Division II National Football Championship title games. Pittsburg State is 2–3, winning in ...
October 4 – The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees 2–0 in Game 7 of the 1955 Fall Classic. October 7 – At the Six Gallery in San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg gives a spirited reading of his poem Howl. Jack Kerouac and other Beat writers chant and shout along.
The Henderson Metal Curling Classic presented by Kioti Tractors of Ontario is an annual bonspiel on the men's curling tour. It is held annually in October at the YNCU Curling Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. [1] It was first held in 2023 under the name Soo Curlers Fall Classic with a purse of $90,000. [2]
The Modular Tactical Vest (MTV or MoTaV) is a ballistic vest originally adopted by the United States Marine Corps in 2006. The MTV was designed as a solution to shortcomings in the Interceptor Body Armor (IBA) and was selected after a rigorous proposal and examination process by the Marine Corps.
As of 2024, the LGM-30G (Version 3) [note 1] is the only land-based ICBM in service in the United States and represents the land leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, along with the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) and nuclear weapons carried by long-range strategic bombers.
The first person to significantly research this opening was chess amateur Otto Mandrup Tennison (1834–1909). [7] [8] Tennison was born in Denmark, studied in Germany and moved to the United States in 1854.